Custom Made Birthday Card

Another of the cards that were made for a friend of mine. These cards all went over to the UK, which is a pretty awesome feeling, my work travels.

Birthday Card: Nephew #1

So we have had a 16th birthday, a 40th milestone and now another age of importance. Nephew #1 has turned 18 this year. I worked with some greens for him as this is his favorite colour.

Birthday Card

A birthday card for a friends dad's birthday. Hope he liked it.

The Berri Adventure

A couple weeks back I went on a road trip with some friends to celebrate one of the parties 40th birthday. The birthday boy had booked a holiday shack up near Berri on the Murray River. Unfortunately just on leaving Adelaide I happened to cause some damage to my back and endured the 3 hours road trip to the holiday shack. 

The holiday shacks view was amazing, picturesque and breath taking, which was a relief because with my back getting worse and the pain killers not working, it was at least a lovely place to just sit and what the world go by.

There also seemed to be some local wildlife that was rather curious who was occupying to premises at the time. 

After sitting around watching the guys organise the boat the was hired, we headed off to the Overland Corner Hotel for dinner. Beautiful food, great company, and good live music. There was also a large hungry  Pharaoh Hound and insects involved but we coped.

 Once dinner was consumed and we returned to the holiday shack the four of use sat out on the deck and marveled over a very clear crisp display of stars over head. After a while we all began to see satellites and a few shooting stars.

The following morning brought a glorious sunrise.

The rest of the day ended up rather windy but much fun was had by all. 

The day was aptly ended was a equality captivating sunset.

But, alas, our time was up and we had to return to society (boo), and this was my parting photo of the view that had been so lovely to just sit and take in. 

 

A seafaring Birthday Card

I hadn't made this style card yet, so I thought it was time to give it a go. I much say for such a simple card, it can be very detailed and dynamic. It is also a very economical card to make, not needing to much in the way of paper or card stock. I  might try these a bit more in the future.

Family Album: Journey

Going through some old pictures I came across this. My brother will more than likely kill me for posting this photo of him, but the captured moment is just priceless, and I had to include it in my family album project.

Family Album: Sand Castles

This is my father, Raymond Patrick Watson, at a very young age having some fun at the beach, curly mop of hair and all. The photo was more than likely taken by his father (my grandfather Ryan Leo Watson), who was an avid photographer. Thanks for Ryan, I have a massive collection of great photos to work with in creating my family album

Family Album: is it a bird...

This is a beautiful photo of my maternal grandfather, Eric Olwage, and my brother (when he was younger) looking up to the sky in wonderment. Wish I knew what it was they were looking at.

Family Album: Watson Boys

Another page to add to the album. This is my uncle on the right and my father on the left with my brother as a youngster in the foreground (very much before I was born). They look like a bunch of rascals to be honest, getting up to all sorts of mischief.

Family Album: Great Grandparents

I found these lovely photos of my father's, mother's parents (paternal great grandparents).  My grandmother, "Margaret Freda Stevenson", who I posted an album page of earlier looks so much like her mother Ada Irene Birkett. I have been rather lucky finding out information about my great grandfather, Henry Watt Stevenson, however I don't know a lot about Ada for the time being. 

I am very passionate about genealogy and my family history, I have been fortunate that I have been able to research my maternal family history, my paternal family history is a little more complicated. I just love that I have these photos that I can identify family members and I can generate these pages for the use of my family album. 

Birthday Card: Friends 40th

 A friend recently celebrated his 40th so I made him this to go along with his present.

The Liebster Award

So I got a present today, The Liebster Award, which was passed on to me by my wonderful friend and mother-in-law, Margaret from Margys Paper Games

The rules are:  Post it to your blog and then give the Award to five bloggers whose work you appreciate and who have less than 200 followers.  Leave a comment on their blogs to let them know that you have passed on this Award.

And the 5 awards go to...

Susan Longman of Inkredible Designs

Narelle of Scrapperazzi

Eve of Crafty Secrets

Debbie Smith of Scrap Happy Valley
Celeste Vermeend of Our Girly World

Keep sharing the appreciation and creativity!!

Family Album: Margaret Freda Stevenson

I found this wonderful photo of my paternal grandmother. Again, I do not know much about the date and purpose of the photo but think it is a beautiful photos. My grandfather is most likely the photographer, but I am not certain of this. There are many elegant photos of my grandmother, which I am itching to scrapbooking.

Again I used a more multi media technique, adding on small elements here are there, as well as using some gesso and misting templates to achieve textures on the page.

I think I will work with a photo of one of the males in the family next and see what I can achieve.

Birthday card Nephew #2

 Nephew #2 had his 16th birthday last week. Made him this, which I think he liked (his favorite colour is Purple)

Family Album: Beach Babe Halcyon Mignon Olwage

For a few years now I have had it in mind to make a photo album/family tree of the branches of my family tree. I have a large amount of photos that are just sitting in a box, some here in Adelaide with me and some with my brother and some more with my father. It seems a pity and a waist to just have them packed away, so I have brought them out to see the light of day. I started off with a photograph of my mother, when she was much younger. I know nothing of the day the photo was taken or how old she was, but I left it was a great photo of my mother as a young person.

This page ended up being a bit of an experiment in multi media and trying out a few other methods I had seen around in various blogs and on line groups. There is just such a large amount of inspiration out there to not try new things with almost every page one works on.

Beach babe

I will also be compiling a file for each family member, noting things like date of birth  children, spouse and other things along that line. I am really looking forward to this project, as it has been some thing I have wanted to do for a long time.

Anniversary Card

It will be my in laws anniversary tomorrow, so I whipped up with little beauty for them. Happy Anniversary Perry and Margaret.

Custom Made Birthday Card

Custom made card for a friend who made a bulk order for cards for some girlfriends of hers. 

A Baby to Come

Another friend is about to have her baby this week, so I made her a card as well. I used Kaisercraft Gypsy Sister collection, which I live but just don't have many occasion to use it.

A Valentine Baby

A friend gave birth to her second baby girl on Valentines day last week. I made her this in celebration of the new bundle of joy.

Valentine Card

Made this for a friends partner. I had plans on making some for my Etsy store, however crippling back pain had me out of action for a while. I still kept my promise of making this one through.